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Publisher: Government Printing Office
Published: 2005-02-24
Total Pages: 1104
ISBN-13: 9780160732621
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Evaluates the potential environmental impacts of a proposed mixed oxide fuel (MOX) fabrication facility that would convert depleted uranium and weapons-grade plutonium into MOX fuel.
Author: U.s. Nuclear Reglatory Commission
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2014-06-09
Total Pages: 520
ISBN-13: 9781500139773
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has contracted with Duke Cogema Stone & Webster (DCS) to design, construct, and operate a proposed Mixed Oxide (MOX) Fuel Fabrication Facility that would convert depleted uranium and weapons-grade plutonium into MOX fuel. The proposed MOX facility would be located on the DOE's Savannah River Site in South Carolina. Use of the proposed facility to produce MOX fuel would be part of the DOE's surplus plutonium disposition program. The purpose of the DOE program is to ensure that plutonium produced for nuclear weapons and declared excess to national security is converted to proliferation- resistant forms.
Author: Argonne National Laboratory
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Published: 2005
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards. Division of Waste Management and Environmental Protection
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 48
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced its intent to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) on the disposition of the nations weapon-usable surplus plutonium. This EIS is tiered from the Storage and Disposition of Weapons-Usable Fissile Material Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement issued in December 1996,and the associated Record of Decision issued on January, 1997. The EIS will examine reasonable alternatives and potential environmental impacts for the proposed siting, construction, and operation of three types of facilities for plutonium disposition. The three types of facilities are: a pit disassembly and conversion facility, a facility to immobilize surplus plutonium in a glass or ceramic form for disposition, and a facility to fabricate plutonium oxide into mixed oxide (MOX) fuel. As an integral part of the surplus plutonium program, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) was tasked by the DOE Office of Fissile Material Disposition(MD) as the technical lead to organize and evaluate existing facilities in the DOE complex which may meet MD's need for a domestic MOX fuel fabrication demonstration facility. The Lead Assembly (LA) facility is to produce 1 MT of usable test fuel per year for three years. The Savannah River Site (SRS) as the only operating plutonium processing site in the DOE complex, proposes two options to carry out the fabrication of MOX fuel lead test assemblies: an all Category I facility option and a combined Category I and non-Category I facilities option.